The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.

I am back in LA now. And I keep thinking back to my time in New York after the bombings.... I was crying so much I could not see, and the other diners joined in, and I thought, What do you do with such atheistic evil?

I don't believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Science leads you to killing people.

People getting rich in a free society in general - with some scammy exceptions, which are rare - makes everyone else richer, too.

If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.